Gas & Electric winter bill
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I got a quarterly electricity (dont have gas) bill for £290 last week. I thought it was a bit high for one person in a one bed flat, mainly only a weekends. I sent them my latest meter readings and its been reduced to £75. Thats more like it..... (my last one was £90)
Edited by Sarkmeister on Thursday 5th February 14:26
Edited by Sarkmeister on Thursday 5th February 14:26
fairly standard 2 bed bungalow full of gadgets, including a hifi with two power amps that heat up the room on their own. Turn everything off at the plug at night and all energy saving bulbs but caartainly don't go out of my way to save energy, there are usually tv, hifi, console, computer etc. all on at once. If it helps maybe I get a good rate though never bothered to change suppliers, used 506 units at 12.79p each. Previous quarter was £66.05 so used a lot more when on holiday and visitors over christmas/new year 
Edited by Crusoe on Thursday 5th February 14:46
£908 for the quarter - £580 for gas and £324 for the leccy. Think I did quite well actually as the supplier hiked prices by 30% just before Christmas and we lived 'normally' in one of the coldest winters for a long while. House is 1870, 4-bed with 14ft ceilings up and downstairs, single glazed sash and case.
Could be worse, could be like my parents with a gas fired Aga in an even older house with single glazing!
Dr Rick
Could be worse, could be like my parents with a gas fired Aga in an even older house with single glazing!
Dr Rick
Sarkmeister said:
I got a quarterly electricity (dont have gas) bill for £290 last week. I thought it was a bit high for one person in a one bed flat, mainly only a weekends. I sent them my latest meter readings and its been reduced to £75. Thats more like it..... (my last one was £90)
That's about the same as me then. I can't stand these estimated bills, but I guess someone pays withoug checking. Daft really as it doesn't take five minutes to take the readings and phone them in.Edited by Sarkmeister on Thursday 5th February 14:26
Edited by Sarkmeister on Thursday 5th February 14:26
Shar2 said:
Sarkmeister said:
I got a quarterly electricity (dont have gas) bill for £290 last week. I thought it was a bit high for one person in a one bed flat, mainly only a weekends. I sent them my latest meter readings and its been reduced to £75. Thats more like it..... (my last one was £90)
That's about the same as me then. I can't stand these estimated bills, but I guess someone pays withoug checking. Daft really as it doesn't take five minutes to take the readings and phone them in.Edited by Sarkmeister on Thursday 5th February 14:26
Edited by Sarkmeister on Thursday 5th February 14:26
try www.uswitch.com and see what it comes up with. Seems I can save another £57 a year if I changed suppliers though hardly seems worth it.
RW-W113 said:
So which gas and electric supplier is viewed as the cheapest now in the UK? I am with EDF but read somewhere they are now the most expensive!
Did this relatively recently and came up with Atlantic Gas & Electricity, also known as Scottish & Southern. Turns out my whole family pay the same company for the pleasure of staying alive. Still, could be worse, could be British Gas!As an aside, I never pay DD because they always estimate the bills and I'd rather pay a little more to keep control rather than be trying to claw the cash back from them. So the first gas bill that came through at the end of January '09 was an estimate. They were a little out, they reckoned I'd spent £2684 in a quarter. Don't know what they thought I'd been doing, maybe heating the entire street. Tried to talk it away with a 'Well its an estimate, but we do try to get two readings a year'. I've never seen anyone trying to read our meter in 2 years, and definitely no cards through the door.
Dr Rick
I really wish I could work out how they determine the DD payment.
Since we moved into our house in 2003 we had been paying £35 a month for gas and electric. Even in winter 07/08 we were in credit with them. Now we have just had a bill and they have decided that we should be paying them £77 a month, because the January bill was £330 including some left over from the last bill.
Also another company to increase it's Direct Debit is BT. We owed them for the last quarter £100.00 and of that paid them approx half in other words the outstanding amount is £50.00 So they have now decided we need to increase our payment from £18.50 a month to £42.50 a month. Is it me or does that not sound right?
Since we moved into our house in 2003 we had been paying £35 a month for gas and electric. Even in winter 07/08 we were in credit with them. Now we have just had a bill and they have decided that we should be paying them £77 a month, because the January bill was £330 including some left over from the last bill.
Also another company to increase it's Direct Debit is BT. We owed them for the last quarter £100.00 and of that paid them approx half in other words the outstanding amount is £50.00 So they have now decided we need to increase our payment from £18.50 a month to £42.50 a month. Is it me or does that not sound right?
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